splash-screen

Multi-Threaded splash screen in c#?

I know this question is all over the net, but I can't quite find what I am looking for and quite frankly this community seems more sophisticated than most I have seen. I want a splash screen to show while the application is loading. I have a form with a system tray control tied to it. I want the splash screen to display while this for...

Fade splash screen in and out

In a C# windows forms application. I have a splash screen with some multi-threaded processes happening in the background. What I would like to do is when I display the splash screen initially, I would like to have it appear to "fade in". And then, once all the processes finish, I would like it to appear as though the splash screen is "fa...

Application window sent behind other windows on closing different thread (C#)

I'm writing a Windows Forms Application in C#.NET On startup, the application displays a splash screen which is running in a separate thread. Whilst the splash screen is showing, the main application is initialising. Once the main application has finished initialising, the main form of the application is displayed, and the splash scre...

play movie file during iphone application startup(i.e during application loading)

Hi, I want to play a movie file or any animation file till the time application not loaded completely. is there any simple way to do it? Thanks is advance. ...

Displaying splash screen in Delphi when main thread is busy

I'd like to display splash screen while the application is loading. However some 3rd party components block main thread during initilization for several seconds, which causes all forms not to update. Is it possible to have splash screen with own thread so it would update also when main thread is busy? The application is win32 and Delphi...

problem with splash screen - C# - VS2005

Dear all, I have an application. First I display a splash screen, a form, and this splash would call another form. Problem: When the splash form is displayed, if I then open another application on the top of the splash, and then minimize this newly opened application window, the splash screen becomes white. How do I avoid this? I wa...

C# Splash Screen Problem

Dear All, I still have a problem with the splash screen. I don't want to use the property SC.TopMost=true. Now my application scenario is as follows: in progeram.cs: [STAThread] static void Main() { new SplashScreen(_tempAL);// where _tempAL is an arrayList Application.Run(new Form1(_tempAL)); } in ...

Playing sound while displaying a splash screen?

Dear all, I want to play a sound while my splash screen gets data from the server. The sound file is not too large. I want something like when you start your computer you hear the MSWinXP welcome sound and that while establishing your account. How can I do that? thnx ...

VB.Net Splash Screen Doesn't Go Away

I am using the built in functionality to define a splash screen using vb.net in VS2008. In Me.Startup, I'm calling a function which does a DB version check, then updates if required. This function then writes to a label, using an invoke if required to write the status. Everything functions fine, all the DB updates complete, but the spla...

How can I display a splash screen for longer on an iPhone?

How can I display a splash screen for a longer period of time than the default time on an iPhone? ...

Standard sizes for Windows splash screens

Is there a standard splash screen size or set of guidelines for the size of a splash screen? This is for a music-playing application for XP and Vista. ...

Showing a Splash Screen during script execution

Hi, I want to know how to show a splash screen (like a gif or jpeg file) on the user screen during my script execution. Thank you for your help. ...

How to show a splash screen during launch of a Cocoa app?

I would like to show the user a splash screen (a picture) while my Cocoa-based application launches. How would this be possible? ...

C#: What is the ideal method of adding a splash screen to a project?

I'm going to input a splash screen to an application I'm currently working on that only consists of one form which we will call frmMain for now. I want to implement a splash screen (frmSplash) but need advice as to what would be the best way to implement it. The purpose of the splash screen will be to load necessary settings into textbox...

How to hide MFC splash screen in auto start?

Hi, I have a MFC app without main window. When users start it, it displays the splash screen for 1~2 seconds, then splash screen fades out to system tray. Users start to access the menu by clicking the icon in the tray. The app can also auto start when users login to Windows (adding entry in Start Up folder). The same process describe...

Custom Silverlight splash screen

Has anyone created a custom Silverlight Splash screen to replace the blue balls circular progress? Does anyone have a sample or the best way to do this? ...

Splash-screen with alpha channels transparency/opacity in WinForms

How to implement a splash-screen using an image with alpha channels transparency/opacity in WinForms? ...

Why is my Form so shy?

EDIT 2 Okay, based on the advice on the answers below I eliminated my thread approach and now my program looks like this: program.cs static void Main(){ Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false); FrmWWCShell FrmWWCShell = null; var splash = new FrmSplash(); splash.SplashFormInitialized +...

How can I hide the DOS Window and bring up a splash screen?

Ive used the Matlab Compiler to create a .exe file.. The program takes 15 sec to start.. So I figured that I needed to get rid of the DOS window and needed a splash screen.. How can I do that?? ...

How to make a splash screen with a progress bar on Turbo Delphi?

(Unit1.pas) unit Unit1; interface uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, StdCtrls, ExtCtrls,unit2; type TForm1 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; Label1: TLabel; Timer1: TTimer; procedure Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject); ...